Famous Stories
Once, Socrates was walking on the street. Someone hit him on the back with a stick. The pain was so painful that he could not stand and squatted down, but soon, He stood up again as if nothing had happened. Bystanders who witnessed the whole incident saw that he had no reaction and asked him curiously: Why didn't you fight back when you were beaten? Socrates smiled and replied: When a wild donkey kicks you, will you kick it back?
* Bernard Shaw liked to ride a bicycle when he was young. Once he fell and broke his leg. His female classmate took good care of him. George Bernard Shaw was worried that he was weak and might propose to this female classmate, so he decided to run away. Walk. But he accidentally fell from the stairs to the bottom of the stairs and broke both legs. As expected, he asked her if she would marry him. When the female classmate nodded, George Bernard Shaw fainted.
* A woman said to Maugham: I have been with a man for a long time, but I am not sure whether I have fallen in love with him. This famous writer has a very unique view on the test of love. He said: There is only one way to test whether you really fall in love with him. Are you willing to brush your teeth with his toothbrush?
* Someone asked Alexandre Dumas Say: Why can you enter your old age calmly? He retorted disapprovingly: It took me a lifetime to survive until today.
* Fang Xuanling, a famous prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, once fell seriously ill when he was not an official. He said to his wife, Mrs. Lu: If I die of illness, you should not be a widow but remarry. Mrs. Lu went to the room and dug out one eye to show that she would never change her integrity for the rest of her life. Later, Fang Xuanling recovered from his illness and rose to the position of prime minister. He always respected his wife very much.
＊Female novelist Agatha. Christie's husband is an archaeologist. Once, a friend asked him at a gathering: How would you feel if an imaginative woman like you married a man who played with antiquities? The detective novelist said: An archaeologist is the most ideal husband. If you think about it, the older the thing is, the more he likes it.
* Voltaire visited England in 1727. He found that the English hated the French very much. A group of Englishmen roared at him: Kill him and hang the Frenchman! Voltaire said: English! You want to kill me because I am French. Isn't it enough that I am not punished for not being British? The British laughed loudly and even sent him back to his apartment safely.
Under the sun, hot tears flowed. By this time Dr. Johnson had become famous, and everyone came to see him. He said to everyone: On the same day and at the same time fifty years ago, I disobeyed my father, and now I kneel here to repent!
* A Paris bartender said: After a customer drinks two double martinis, I can tell his nationality. The French fall in love, the Spanish dance, the Germans boast, the Italians sing, the Irish fight, and the Americans stand up and speak.
* Joey Brown traveled to the East during the Pacific War and met General MacArthur. The two took a photo together. The famous star with a wide mouth said: I am lucky to be able to take a photo with you! But General MacArthur said: This photo was taken for my youngest son. He often hopes that his father can take photos with famous people.
* In his later years, Ouyang Xiu revised the words he had written in his life every day, and he worked very hard. His wife told him not to revise it, saying: Why torture yourself like this? Are you still afraid of being scolded by the teacher? Ouyang Xiu smiled and said: I am not afraid of being scolded by my husband, but I am afraid of being laughed at by future generations.
* Mark Twain worked in a newspaper when he was young. Six months later, the editor-in-chief told him not to come back tomorrow. Mark Twain asked why? The editor-in-chief said: Because you are too lazy. Mark Twain smiled and replied: It took you six months to find out that I was lazy, but I knew it on the first day I joined the newspaper office.
* Yang Xiu, a close minister of Cao Cao in the Later Han Dynasty, was very smart at the age of nine. One day, his father Kong Pingping came to visit and he met him. He prepared a treat of bayberries. When Kong Pingping saw it, he jokingly asked: Is this the fruit of your family? Yang Xiu immediately replied: I have never heard that peacocks are your poultry!
* When Su Shi was the magistrate of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty, there was a county citizen who made a living by making fans. However, the weather was cold and the fans could not be sold, so he owed taxes. Dongpo asked him to take a fan and draw dead wood, bamboo and stone on it. After drawing more than twenty fans, the county people just walked out of the gate of the county government, and people came to buy them. Therefore, all the taxes owed were paid off.
＊The Italian Renaissance painter Raphael painted a portrait of Mary holding the Son of Jesus. On her lower right is an old man and on the lower left is a maid. But there is a large blank space directly below, and I am thinking about what to fill in. At this time, he saw two children from the window of a nearby bakery. The older one, about four or five years old, was holding his chin, looking up at the sky, talking to his younger brother. The younger one was leaning on his arms, looking at the sky as well. Listening to his brother. Raphael thought it was beautiful, so he drew them at the bottom of the painting, and added wings to make them two angels.
* Someone asked how Raphael could paint such beautiful works? He replied: I had many dreams, and then I painted around my dreams. Fantasy can make people see invisible things, and will can make invisible things become visible entities.
* Einstein put forward his views on success in life at a press conference. He expressed it with a mathematical formula: Suppose A represents a person's success, then I can write the following formula A=X+Y+Z, where X represents work and Y represents game. Reporter asked: What does Z stand for? Einstein smiled and replied: Z is to close your mouth.
＊Finnish conductor Boris. Mr. and Mrs. Sebo came to the United States to perform. The house they live in is said to be haunted. One day I was woken up by the ghost's voice. Mrs. Seiber asked her husband to go and have a look, but the conductor said: No, dear, you'd better go. Because you speak English better than me.
* When Mozart was six years old, he held his first concert at the Royal Palace in Munich, Germany. Because the floor in the palace was slippery, he slipped and fell as soon as he entered the palace gate. At this time, a little princess came over, helped him up, and kissed his hand. Mozart was very grateful and didn't know how to thank him. He said: When I grow up, I must take you as my bride. After everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.
* In the 1948 U.S. election, President Truman rushed from the White House to his hometown to vote. A group of journalists chased the president to his home, but did not see the president. When he met the president later, a reporter asked him what happened along the way. President Truman replied: There was a police car asking us to stop. It looked like an important person was going to pass through this small town today.
>＊Once, a reporter asked Kennedy: How did you become a hero during World War II? Kennedy replied: They sank my cruiser and I became famous. We know that Kennedy was aboard the DT-O No. 8 boat, which was sunk by the enemy, and he was injured as a result.
*Socrates’ wife was very fierce. Once, she lost her temper and scolded Socrates. Still angry, she took a large bucket of water and poured it on her. Mr. head. Socrates scratched his wet hair and laughed: After the thunder, there must be heavy rain. This is a natural law, and it also proves that this is the truth.
*Newton was very attentive in his studies. One day, his friends were treating him to dinner. During the dinner, he remembered a bottle of wine at home, so he told his friends to wait a moment while he went home to get the wine. The friend waited and waited, but did not see Newton coming back, so he had to go and see what was going on. It turned out that Newton remembered an experiment on his way home. When he got home, he plunged into the laboratory and started doing the experiment, forgetting all about getting wine to entertain his friends. Another time, he was hungry and boiled eggs to eat, but while thinking about the problem, he put the eggs into the pot. When the problem was solved and he wanted to eat the eggs, he opened the lid of the pot and what he picked up was his pocket watch.
* Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty was born into a family of officials. He has been very resourceful and studious since childhood. He was admitted to Jinshi when he was just twenty years old. He was an honest official and often used time to read in his spare time, determined to write a general chronicle as a reference for people. In order to seize the time to study, he specially made a log pillow. The wonderful function of the pillow is that as long as the body turns over during sleep, it will roll, and the person will wake up and can continue to study knowledge, so it is called "alarm pillow". Whenever Sima Guang needed to rest, he would rest his head on a "warning pillow". As a result of such study, he finally became a learned man.
Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs
The founder of Apple Computer, he received the National Medal of Technology awarded by President Reagan in 1985; in 1997, he became a member of Time Weekly magazine cover; in the same year he was named the most successful manager and is a well-known "computer geek."
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He is an American hero who has experienced ups and downs, but still remains standing. As Hemingway said in "The Old Man and the Sea", a person can Destroyed, but not defeated. He created "Apple", set off a trend of personal computers, and changed an era. However, he was blocked at the peak and fell from a high building to the bottom. But 12 years later, he made a comeback and started his second "Apple" again. Steve Jobs” era.
“Apple” was born
On February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, USA. Just after he was born, he was loved by his father, a university professor, and his mother, a decadent artist. Callously abandoned. Fortunately, a kind-hearted couple took in the poor illegitimate child.
Although he is an adopted son, his adoptive parents treat him very well, just like their own children. As a student, Jobs was smart, naughty, and unscrupulous, and he often liked to come up with ingenious pranks that made people laugh. However, his academic performance is very outstanding.
At that time, Jobs lived near the famous "Silicon Valley", and his neighbors were all employees of Hewlett-Packard, the veterans of "Silicon Valley". Under the influence of these people, Jobs was obsessed with electronics since he was a child. An HP engineer saw his obsession and recommended him to join HP's "Discoverers Club." This is a party for young engineers held every Tuesday evening in the company cafeteria. It was at a party that Jobs saw a computer for the first time, and he began to have a vague understanding of computers.
When Jobs was in junior high school, he met Woz, who was 5 years older than him, at a class reunion. Woz is the president of the school's electronics club and is also very interested in electronics. The two hit it off, and eight years later they founded Apple Computer.
At the age of 19, Jobs, who was just in his first year of college, had a sudden idea and dropped out of school to become an employee of Atari Video Game Console Company.
Not long after, the young and restless man became interested in Buddhism again. He even gave up his job and traveled across the ocean to India to practice martial arts with the great master. The result this time is predictable. Not only did I fail to become a Buddha, I also suffered a lot of hardships on the way. He had no choice but to return to Atari and become an engineer.
After settling down, Jobs continued his youthful interests, often working with Woz on computers in his small garage. They dreamed of owning their own computer, but the ones on the market at the time were all commercial, bulky and extremely expensive, so they planned to develop their own. A microprocessor is necessary to manufacture a personal computer, but the retail price of the 8080 chip at that time was US$270, and it was not sold to people without registered companies. The two were not discouraged and continued to search, and finally bought the 6502 chip produced by Motorola at the 1976 Wisconsin Computer Products Show in San Francisco. Its functions were almost the same as Intel's 8080, but the price was only $20.
With the 6502 chip in hand, the two ecstatic young men returned to Jobs’s garage and started their own great innovation. They designed a circuit board, mounted the 6502 microprocessor and interfaces and other components on it, and connected the microprocessor to the keyboard and video monitor through the interfaces. In just a few weeks, the computer was installed. Jobs' friends were shocked, but they didn't realize that this humble thing was the world's first personal computer and how much impact it would have on the future world. But the shrewd Jobs immediately estimated the market value of this homemade computer. In order to raise funds for mass production, he sold his Volkswagen car and persuaded Woz to also sell his cherished HP Model 65 calculator. In this way, they had 1,300 US dollars to lay the foundation for their great undertaking.
On April Fool's Day in 1976, Jobs, Woz and Jobs' friend Ron Wayne did something that would affect future generations: the three of them signed a contract and decided to establish a computer company. The company's name was decided by Jobs, who favored Apple - called Apple. What became popular later was the famous trademark - an apple with a bite. And their homemade computer was naturally regarded as the "Apple I" computer.
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But at the beginning, the business of "Apple" machines was very light. After all, it is a brand new thing. Except for people who are interested in electronics, who knows What is the use of this thing? Friends who were originally interested in the "Apple One" are now taking a wait-and-see attitude, waiting for the release of the better "Apple II".
An accidental opportunity brought a turning point for "Apple" company. One day in July 1976, retailer Paul Terrell came to Jobs's garage. After watching Jobs skillfully demonstrate the computer, he believed that the "Apple" machine had a great future and decided to take a risk-ordering 50 units. Jobs was overjoyed and signed the contract immediately, but required delivery within a month. This was the first "big deal" he had ever made.
The time was too short and the tasks were heavy. Jobs and Woz braved the scorching heat and worked day and night. They risked their lives for the survival of the company. They spend almost every day sweating and fighting tenaciously, working 66 hours a week. Finally, on the 29th day, they miraculously completed the task and handed over all 50 "Apple" computers to the businessman Terrell.
The 50 complete machines were quickly sold out in Terrell's hands. With a good start, the "Apple" company became famous. Small batch production started. Jobs and Woz began to realize that their small capital was simply not enough to cope with this rapid development. Jobs later recalled: "About the autumn of 1976, I found that the market was growing faster than we thought, and we needed more money." To this end, they split up to find financial support, including Hewlett-Packard, the company where Woz worked. But unfortunately, these companies did not realize the business opportunities and markets contained in this.
Opportunities tend to favor those who work hard. In October 1976, millionaire Marcula came to visit Woz and their garage workshop.
Markula is a trained electrical engineer and is very good at sales work. He is known as a sales wizard. Having made a fortune in the stock business, he chose retirement early. But seeing the new products of these two young people, Markkula was determined to return to his old business and help them start the company with great fanfare. He took the initiative to help them develop a business plan and gave them a loan of $690,000, linking his destiny with the two young men. With the guidance of an expert like Markkula and this huge sum of money, the development speed of "Apple" has been greatly accelerated.
In April 1977, the first computer exhibition in the history of the United States opened on the West Coast. In order to make a name for himself at the exhibition, Jobs traveled around and spent a lot of money to get the biggest and best booth at the exhibition. What is more eye-catching is of course the Apple No. 2 prototype. It changed the image of personal computers in the past that were heavy, cumbersome, complex in design, and difficult to operate. With its distinctive features of being small, lightweight, easy to operate, and able to be placed at home, it firmly grasped the concept of personal computers. the hearts of the audience. It weighs only 12 pounds, is assembled with only 10 screws, and has a beautiful plastic shell that looks like a beautiful typewriter. People couldn't believe that this little machine could continuously display spectacular kaleidoscope-like colors on a large fluorescent screen. The "Apple II" machine was a blockbuster at the exhibition. Thousands of users flocked to the booth to watch, Trial, orders are coming in one after another.
In 1980, a full-page advertisement in the "Wall Street Journal" read "Apple Computer is the bicycle of mankind in the 21st century" and included a huge photo of Jobs. On December 12, 1980, Apple's stock went public. In less than an hour, all 4.6 million shares were sold out, closing at $29 per share that day. Based on this closing price, Apple's top executives have produced 4 billionaires and more than 40 millionaires. Steve Jobs, as the founder of the company, is of course number one.
From its start-up in early 1976 with only $1,300, in less than five years, "Apple" developed into a large computer company with more than 1,000 employees and a market value of billions of dollars. This cannot but be said to be a miracle. At the age of only 25, Jobs became a billionaire, which is a miracle among miracles.
Because of his great success, Jobs received the National Medal of Technology from President Reagan in 1985. However, success came too quickly, and behind too many honors was a strong crisis. Because Jobs was too sharp and aggressive, he invisibly offended many people. In addition, the blue giant IBM also began to wake up and launched personal computers to seize the large market. As a result, the computers developed by Jobs failed miserably. The general manager and directors blamed the failure on Chairman Jobs. In April 1985, his management authority was revoked by a resolution of the board of directors. After several unsuccessful attempts to regain power, Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple on September 17, 1985.
A few days after his resignation, Jobs founded "next" computer company and continued his career journey, but the glory of "Apple" did not continue after he left.
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On December 17, 1996, almost every major computer newspaper in the world published the news "Apple acquires Next, Steve Jobs returns to Apple" on the front page. At this time, Jobs was becoming famous because of his company's successful production of the first computer animated film "Toy Story", and his personal net worth had soared by more than 1 billion US dollars; in contrast, Apple was on the verge of extinction.
Everyone at Apple is very happy that Steve Jobs has returned from Apple's crisis. Even former CEO Amelio said in his welcome speech to welcome Jobs: "We welcome the return of our greatest genius with the most solemn ceremony. We believe that he will make the world believe that Apple computers are eternal innovations in the information industry. "Jobs returned to his hometown with the dream of "big business" in mind. "I have always been passionate about Apple, and it's a great honor to once again be designing the blueprint for Apple's future," he said to Apple Computer followers.
"This former hero finally returned in the face of public expectations!
In times of crisis, Jobs boldly exerted his authority as CEO and carried out drastic reforms. He first reorganized the board of directors, and then He did something that made people jaw-dropping - abandoning old grudges, shaking hands with Apple's old enemy Microsoft, and forming the world-famous "Alliance of the Century", reaching a strategic comprehensive cross-licensing agreement. As a result, Jobs once again became the "Alien of the Century". The cover character of Time magazine.
Then he began to launch a new computer in 1998, carrying the hopes of Apple, condensing the sweat of employees, and entrusting Jobs' dream to revitalize Apple. In front of the world. It is a brand-new computer, representing a future concept, with a translucent exterior that sweeps away the monotonous gray-brown color of computers. It looks like a product of the space age, with a luminous mouse and a $1,299 computer. The price tag is pleasing to the eye... It is indeed an Apple design, unique and extraordinary. For the purpose of publicity, Jobs turned Descartes' famous saying "I think, therefore I am" into the advertising copy of iMac? Think There For iMac! A classic case in the advertising industry.
The new product rekindled the hopes of Apple fans for three years. The iMac became the hottest topic of the year. In August, iMac won the title of "Time" magazine's "Best Computer of 1998" and ranked third among the "Top Ten Industrial Designs in the World in 1998". Then, in 1999, Jobs launched the second generation. iMac is available in five fruit colors: red, yellow, blue, green, and purple. The iBook, a blue and yellow laptop computer that looks like a beautiful toy, was launched in July 1999 and was warmly welcomed by users as soon as it was launched. It was immediately popular among users in the market. The iBook combines the unique fashion style of the iMac, the latest wireless network functions and all the advantages of Apple computers in the field of portable computers. It is a "mobile iMac" designed for home and school users in October 1999. iBook won the first place in the "U.S. consumer portable computer" market, and also won the "Best Design of the Year" award in the "1999 World's Best" selection held by Time magazine.
In. Under Jobs' reforms, Apple finally reversed its defeat. When Jobs first took office, Apple's losses were as high as US$1 billion, but a year later it miraculously made a profit of US$309 million. When the profit for the fourth fiscal quarter was US$152 million, exceeding Wall Street's forecast by 38%, Apple's stock price immediately climbed and closed at US$46.5 per share. Public opinion was in an uproar. Apple's share of the PC market had dropped from its original level. 5% increased to 10%.
In 1997, Jobs was named the "most successful manager". More and more industry colleagues agree with this view. Even Sculley, who pushed Jobs out of Apple, couldn't help but admire: "Apple's turnaround is not a scam. Jobs did an absolutely outstanding job. Apple has begun to return to its original track."
Jobs became A miracle, but this miracle will continue. He always surprises people, whether at the beginning or later. His genius computer talent, approachable style of life, wonderful creative mind, great goals, and calm leadership style have formed the core content of Apple's corporate culture. Apple employees' reverence for him is nothing short of religious. Employees even say to outsiders: I work for Steve Jobs! Even Bill Gates said that I am just second to Steve Jobs.
In 2003, people predicted that Jobs would appear on the cover of Time magazine for the third time.
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